[38651] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Sat Jun 9 22:40:43 2001
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From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.Nether.net>,
"Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Cc: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:43:54 -0400
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I think I should have been more clear.
When multicast enabling a network, am I wrong in assuming that the routers
will only multicast to their direct, end-user connections and peers (like an
access router will only offer streams to its direct connections)? I am
trying to figure out what advantages multicast-enabling a backbone has when
the majority of customers are not multicast-peers of their upstream routers.
Thanks,
Deepak Jain
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Jared Mauch
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 10:33 PM
To: Joel Jaeggli
Cc: Deepak Jain; Nanog@Merit. Edu
Subject: Re: Multicast Traffic on Backbones
(almost) any verio customer can receive multicast. It is
available upon request. Let me know if you are a verio customer and
require assistance getting multicast.
- Jared
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:09:01PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> verio and l3 are both multicast enabled... I don't know the extent to
> which it's available as a customer...
>
> joelja
>
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Don't know why I came across this, but I found a document on
Sprintlink's
> > site that says their entire backbone is multicast enabled, and they also
> > peer with the MBONE for multicast traffic. They charge no fee for
dedicated
> > customers to be multicast-enabled.
> >
> > Are any other major networks doing this? Or have I been living under a
rock
> > and _everyone_ is doing this now?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Deepak Jain
> > AiNET
> >
>
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